Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 122
Principle (v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Governors should be well principled. -- L'Estrange.
Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired. -- Locke.
Principle (n.) A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works" [syn: {principle}, {rule}].
Principle (n.) A rule or standard especially of good behavior; "a man of principle"; "he will not violate his principles".
Principle (n.) A basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy".
Principle (n.) A rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields" [syn: {principle}, {rule}].
Principle (n.) Rule of personal conduct [syn: {principle}, {precept}].
Principle (n.) (Law) An explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" [syn: {rationale}, {principle}].
Principles (n.) By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are known as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles. These principles have known marks by which they may always be recognized. These are, 1. That they are so clear that they cannot be proved by anterior and more manifest truths. 2, That they are almost universally received. 3. That they are so strongly impressed on our minds that we conform ourselves to them, whatever may be our avowed opinions.
Principles (n.) First principles have their source in the sentiment of our own existence, and that which is in the nature of things. A principle of law is a rule or axiom which is founded in the nature of the subject, and it exists before it is expressed in the form of a rule. Domat, Lois Civiles, liv. prel. t. 1, s. 2 Toull. tit. prel. n. 17. The right to defend one's self, continues as long as an unjust attack, was a principle before it was ever decides by a court, so that a court does Dot establish but recognize principles of law.
Principles (n.) In physics, by principle is understood that which constitutes the essence of a body, or its constituent parts. 8 T. R. 107. See 2 H. Bl. 478. Taken in this sense, a principle cannot be patented; but when by the principle of a machine is meant the modus operandi, the peculiar device or manner of producing any given effect, the application of the principle may be patented. 1 Mason, 470; 1 Gallis, 478; Fessend. on Pat. 130; Phil. on Pat. 95, 101; Perpigna, Manuel des Inventeurs, &c., c. 2, s. 1.
Princock (n.) Alt. of Princox
Princox (n.) A coxcomb; a pert boy. [Obs.]
Prinked (imp. & p. p.) of Prink.
Prinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prink.
Prink (v. i.) To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Prink (v. t.) To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." -- Cowper.
Prink (v.) Dress very carefully and in a finicky manner
Prink (v.) Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress].
Prinker (n.) One who prinks.
Prinpriddle (n.) (Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Printed (imp. & p. p.) of Print.
Printing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Print.
Print (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Print (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Print (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
Print (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
Print (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
Print (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
Print (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
Print (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
Print (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
Print (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
Print (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
Print (n.) That which is produced by printing.
Print (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
Print (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
Print (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
Print (n.) A core print. See under Core.
Printa-ble (a.) Worthy to be published.
Printer (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman.
Printery (n.) A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.
Printing (n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
Printless (a.) 不留痕跡的 Making no imprint.
Printshop (n.) 印刷廠，版畫店 A shop where prints are sold.
Prior (a.) 更重要的，較早的，在先的 Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
Prior (n.) 小修道院院長；大修道院副院長 The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
Priorate (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.
Prioress (n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
Priority (n.) [U]（時間等方面的）在先，居前；[U] [（+over）] 優先，重點；優先權；先取權；[C] 優先考慮的事；優先配給 The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Priority (n.) Precedence; superior rank.
Priority (n.) Status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle" [syn: {precedence}, {precedency}, {priority}].
Priority (n.) Preceding in time [syn: {priority}, {antecedence}, {antecedency}, {anteriority}, {precedence}, {precedency}] [ant: {posteriority}, {subsequence}, {subsequentness}].
Priority (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) 優先考慮的事 Something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things.
// The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority.
// My first/ top priority is to find somewhere to live.
// You have to learn to get your priorities right/ straight (= decide which are the most important jobs or problems and deal with them first).
// Repairing the plumbing is a priority task (= more important than other jobs).
// Banks normally give priority to large businesses when deciding on loans (= they deal with them first because they consider them most important).
// Official business requirements obviously take/ have priority over personal requests (= official business matters will be dealt with first).
Priorly (adv.) Previously.
Priorship (n.) The state or office of prior; priorate.
Priories (n. pl. ) of Priory.
Priory (n.) 小修道院；小的女修道院 [C] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
Alien priory, A small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.
Syn: See Cloister.
Priory (n.) Religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
Pris (n.) See Price, and 1st Prize.
Prisage (n.) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.
Prisage (n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Priscillianist (n.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.
Prise (n.) An enterprise.
Prise (n. & v.) See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.
Priser (n.) See 1st Prizer.
Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Prismatic (a.) Alt. of Prismatical
Prismatical (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, a prism; as, a prismatic form or cleavage.
Prismatical (a.) Separated or distributed by a prism; formed by a prism; as, prismatic colors.
Prismatical (a.) Same as Orthorhombic.
Prismatically (adv.) In the form or manner of a prism; by means of a prism.
Prismatoidal (a.) Having a prismlike form.
Prismoid (n.) A body that approaches to the form of a prism.
Prismoidal (a.) Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids.
Prismy (a.) Pertaining to a prism.
Prison (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Prisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Prison.
Prisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prison.
Prison (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
Prison (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.
Prisoner (n.) One who is confined in a prison.
Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.
Prisonment (n.) Imprisonment.
Pristinate (a.) Pristine; primitive.
Pristine (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
Pristine (a.) (Formal approving) 嶄新的；狀態良好的 New or almost new, and in very good condition.
// Pristine new offices.
// Washing machine for sale - only two months old and in pristine condition.
Pritch (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.
Pritch (n.) Pique; offense.
Pritchel (n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.
Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Privacies (n. pl. ) of Privacy.
Privacy (n.) An attribute of a system's security that ensures that only intended or desired people or bodies can read a message or piece of stored data. Privacy is often enforced by some kind of access control or encryption. (2011-06-03)
Privacy (n.) 隱退，隱居；（不受干擾的）獨處；清靜[U]；祕密，私下 [U]；【古】退隱處，隱居處 [C] The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Privacy (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.
Her sacred privacies all open lie. -- Rowe.
Privacy (n.) Concealment of what is said or done. --Shak.
Privacy (n.) A private matter; a secret. -- Fuller.
Privacy (n.) See {Privity}, 2. [Obs.] -- Arbuthnot.
Privacy (n.) The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: {privacy}, {privateness}, {seclusion}].
Privacy (n.) The condition of being concealed or hidden [syn: {privacy}, {privateness}, {secrecy}, {concealment}].
Privado (n.) A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.
Private (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.
Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
Private (n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
Private (n.) Personal interest; particular business.
Private (n.) Privacy; retirement.
Private (n.) One not invested with a public office.
Private (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Private (n.) The private parts; the genitals.
Private (a.) (Personal) (B1) 私人（用）的；私有的 Only for one person or group and not for everyone.
// She has a small office that is used for private discussions.
// I caught him looking through my private papers.
// The sign on the gate said "Private Property - No Trespassing!"
Private (a.) 私人的 Private activities involve personal matters or relationships and are not related to your work.
// Apparently in interviews he refuses to talk about his private life.
Private (a.) (B1) 不公開的，秘密的 Private thoughts and opinions are secret and not discussed with other people.
// Although I support the project in public, my private opinion is that it will fail.
This is a private matter.
Private (a.) （場所）清靜的，不受侵擾的 A private place is quiet and has no other people to see or hear you.
// Is there somewhere private where we can talk?
Private (a.) 不願吐露心思的；不愛交流思想的；內向的 A private person does not like to talk about their personal feelings and thoughts.
// She's a very private person.
In private (B2) 非公開的，私下的 If you talk to someone or do something in private, you do it without other people being present.
// Jamie wants to speak to me in private.
Compare:
In public (B2) 公開地，當眾 In a place where people can see you.
// I'd never behave like that in public.
Private (a.) (Not official) (B2) 私立的；私營的；民間的 Controlled or paid for by a person or company and not by the government.
// Private education/ healthcare.
// A private doctor/ dentist.
// Banks should be supporting small private businesses.
Private (n.) [ C ] 二等兵，列兵 (Also Private) A soldier of the lowest rank in an army.
// Private Murray/ Sam Murray.
[ as form of address ] You're dismissed, Private.
Privateer (n.) [C] （戰時特准攻擊敵方商船等的）武裝民船，私掠船；私掠船船長（或船員） An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.
Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate. -- Macaulay.